“Gimme Shelter” is a movie based on a true story who the main character is a pregnant teenage girl name Apple who goes through a long rough journey with ups and downs. Many epic events happened in the movie that all lead to connection at last. The pschy that I best believe appears in the movie is the Id and at last the superego because Apple goes from knowing  the basic instinctual to knowing whats best for her at last. She’s had a rough life with unfortunate struggles by being abused, molested, to being in the system. Apple doesn’t like the system because she knows she’s under age and her mother who she is the reason she runs away will try so hard to get the system to find her and get her back, so she can get welfare money. This is what makes her do bad without thinking about the consequences. What she most needed was shelter and support.

 

Apple runs away from her mom who abuses and  keeps her just  because of  the welfare money that she receives. Apple runs away from her moms home in search for her father who she never met, but had saved a letter she once received when she was a baby. Id appears here because Apple believes that running away is the best way to deal with her problems. Apple finds her fathers home and finds out he is a wealthy guy with a after  wife and two other children which he has had after breaking up with Apples mom. He takes her in and gives her a room to stay. But was kicked when she fainted and was taken to the hospital. That’s when her fathers wife found out she was pregnant and made her husband kick her daughter out. I believe Apples father  and his wife where the unconscious because they didn’t try to accessed the fact that Apple is having a baby and needs shelter because there’s  days where she would sleep on the streets. Apple is back on the streets trying to get somewhere. She is walking and is approached by a random dude/pimp in a big car and was called to get in. She listens and get s in and at some point the driver does something that distracts him and Apple takes him out of the car and she take over the wheel and ends up crashing. I think the Id took over her here because she just knows she wants to to get hold of the car so she can leave it she doesn’t really think about the consequences she can put herself and the baby in. Apple is then taken into a hospital where she wakes up seeing a chaplain. The Chaplain tries to give her advise and she tries to not want it. I think she is the unconscious because she’s upset with life that she thinks there’s nothing she can do, but the catholic which give her help and take her into a teenage all pregnant women home where try to be positive and be a family as a a whole. Apple is she at first and just tries to be shut alone in her room. I think she experences repression so she tries to avoid everything that’s going on by shuting herself out the rest.

Apple begins to talk and be more open with the others girls. They treat each other as family by helping each other and celebrating holidays together. She ends up having he baby and names her hope. Her dad comes over asking for forgiveness and tells her to go live with him. She leaves with him and sees that they had decorated the baby’s room in his house. But she is sad because she has been with up and downs and has created a family and home in the catholic teenage pregnant home that she is sad she cannot leave because it has become part of her. I think the super ego kicks in because she begins to find herself and where she feels she truly belongs even though her dad has given her the opportunity to go to his house whenever she wants. She begins to be positive and conscience with herself and surroundings.

In  SSR time in class I’m reading  Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario it’s  a story  about a boy who he and his family live in Honduras. Main character is Enrique who’s mom is Lourdes who left  an unfaithful husband and migrated to the  U.S when Enrique was around 3  and she was telling him to not forget to go to church. Lourdes promises Enrique that she’ll return without being able to face him she left. Lourdes left 2 children in Honduras. Enrique who lives with his grandmother and Belky who lives with her aunt, her moms sister. Lourdes came to the U.S to be able to give her children  a better living in Honduras. Sending them clothes and toys. In which she explains if wouldn’t had left her children wouldn’t had anything  to eat or wear. Lourdes got a job in Beverly Hills with a good payment of around $700 as a care taker but she retires because she got grief every time she gave the girl food, it reminded her of Enrique. Enrique is missing his mothers love, “Enrique’s bewilderment turns to confusion and then adolescent anger”(pg.34). The idea that I got was that as Enrique gets older now 7yrs. old he is building anger  toward his mom  because she didn’t return, but I don’t think he hates her I believe he still loves her no matter what. Lourdes in California gets pregnant  by her boyfriend who seems not to care and decides to go celebrate in a bar while Lourdes gives birth to her baby girl Diana. Back in Honduras Enrique feels lonely like nobody loves him, he misses his moms presence. Although he realizes  that if she were there with him he would of been looking for food in the dump like the other children Enrique sees. Lourdes moves from California to North Carolina because she’s not getting any job in California since there’s a lot of people migrating.

Enrique’s grandmother kicks him out for not wanting to obey the rules and for being a trouble maker. I feel like Enrique is doing all these bad things because his lost and needs someone to guide him and be there with him, to show him love. I feel like someone should realize that and show him that his not alone. Enrique moves in with his uncle Marco which Enrique connects close to and starts to feel loved and appreciated. His Uncle Marco treats him  and loves him the same as his children or even a little more. He goes with his uncle everywhere. Marco changes money in the border.  He goes one day telling himself it will be the last time and he end up dead, robbers riddle his car with bullets. Enrique goes back to where he began to his grandmothers house. Enrique find a girlfriend named Maria Isabel. She’s not just a way to make him stem the loneliness. They understand each other they connect. By what I’ve read they both seem to have gone through the same because Maria mom also left her to come to the North, and since then she’s been shuffling  homes. Enrique starts to inhale glue and coughs black phlegm. Now 16 all he wants is to be with his mom. It think his feeling of rejected  and missing his mom is the reason he’s doing drugs to get high and forget about his problem. He ends up  owing his drug suppliers 6000 lempiras around $400.

Enrique decides to come to the U.S with one of his friends they plan the day and time. He tells himself that he’ll spend 1 year trying and if he doesn’t make it in one year he’ll return home. I predict that he is going to make it but its going to be long  journey facing many barriers along his way to reunite with his mom. Throughout his odyssey the author explains in details everything Enrique has faced  from immigration agents, crooked police, street gangsters and bandits to what people and himself are experiencing. Explaining what the carry such as very little water, people getting their leg cut of by the train while trying to get on the train. Holding tight to their faith on the train carrying the rosary or a photo of their beloved ones they left at home. Numbers written inside the waste of their jeans or on paper of the family member they’re planning to reunite with in the North. This is why I love this book because I can empathize and feel like Im in the story throughout his journey experiencing what he’s going through and seeing along the way.  The author makes me want to go on a pilgrimage and experience what all the children and people are experiencing. All the struggle and tragedy their going through to reunite with their family member, for a better living future.